Sobre el Artista

After graduating from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) in painting and sculpture, I have exhibited in New York, Victoria, and South Australia. I am a practising artist whose main focus is abstract expressionism. In my final year of study, I was the Winner of the Inaugural Art Purchase Prize awarded by the University of South Australia, Adelaide. My works are held in public and private collections. I primarily paint in oil on canvas and have been influenced by the gestural marks of Wilhelm De Kooning, the spiritual work of Mark Rothko, the rhythms of Lee Krasner, the lines of Paul Kline and the passage of Paul Cezanne. My primary subject matter deals with the human condition; how we perceive ourselves and how we fit into this world; physically and spiritually. I respond to such difficult themes and complex issues by interpreting and differentiating the conscious and unconscious. Depicting emotions is very complex; these emotional responses are explored through colours, texture, passage, and lines. Looking back to iconic themes and subject matter, I decontextualises past historical and current events that resonate and have been significant, poignant, and meaningful in my life; I reinterpret them and place them in a modern context. The works are abstract and deal with issues that affect everyone on a personal or impersonal level. These can be complex and disconcerting, The subject matter is free of reference to the real world, the work is fluid and changes depending on mood and time.